Monthly Newsletter February 2018
MYRADOON
Going with traces of our mission, we released one more child from the orphanage and joined him with his mother. Anna originally had been in our shelter. Had her first born and left after few months. She came to our shelter again in November, 2017 with her second child straight from the hospital. A new baby boy. She left her older son Daniel in an orphanage because of her extremely bad financial situation. She was sad and depressed all the time as she was longing for her first child whom she hadn’t seen for 8 months. We turned to Armavir municipality to help us to bring the child to our center. They prepared all the necessary documentations.
We are grateful to Astine Apitonyan for giving a quick respond to our issue and provide us with all the
We celebrated Armenian traditional “Trndez” with our residents!
Ter Partev did a short ceremony in our church chapel and explained Trndez’s meaning. Then we gathered around the fire, sang some religious songs and started jumping over the fire. The festive mood continued around the dinner table.
We Express our gratitude to:
- Hovannes Megerdichian from Utah for arranging and donating 53 Boxes of new blankets and Albert Shahinian for absorbing the cost of shipping them from Utah to CA by Federal express.
- We thank the Hearts Tied together organization of Utah for donating these 700 blankets.
- Armenian Eye Care Project for organizing one of our little shelter resident’s eye treatment.
- We thank Tamara Barsamian ,Ara Tabib and Torkom Sahagian for volunteering in the packing in Signal Hill ,CA regularly.
- Aram Hamparzumian of Orange County for donating to ALCF Emergency survival kits to be shipped by our container to Armenia .
- “Zvartnots Handling” CJSC Check-in clerks 4th shift for donating medicine and sweets.
- Volunteer Mrs. Armine for teaching different kinds of songs to our little residents twice a week.
She has worked in the Ptghunk kindergarten for a long period of time as a pianist and has a huge experience working with children.
- “Children development center” with the head of Vachagan Tamazyan.
They organized a great puppet show and performance for our children. The little residents enjoyed their time and at the end played a lot of intellectual and creative games with their staff members.
- We thank all the donors in USA who donated clothing, toys, pampers, kitchenware , blankets,and many other items for the underprivileged people in Armenia. The container arrived at ALCFwarehouse in Ptghunk Village.
- Astine Apitonyan for donating 7 boxes of food. We will use the food for Myradoon residents.
If you are unable to attend, I hope you will still consider making a tax-deductible contribution. The continued success of our Foundation and the work we do in Armenia depends on generous donors like you.
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Monthly Newsletter January 2018
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MYRADOON
Our resident’s life become more interesting and more colorful when they participate in cultural events. In the beginning of January, theaters donated us tickets for children and adult performances. Our residents went to the Puppet Theather for the children. Mid January we took them to a performance organized by another church. Another evening, we took them to Yerevan City tour, and they enjoyed Yerevan by night. Christmas evening, they went to Ejmiatsin Mother Cathedral. After holy liturgy, the Christmas dinner was waiting for them in our center!
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We continue our Bible Study classes, with the leadership of Armenian Apostolic church priest. In January Father Partev did the Christmas celebration, the water Blessing (Jrorhneq) and blessed the whole center. All our residents plus people from neighboring villages attended the ceremony. He also blessed our food and then we celebrated the birth of Jesus and his Baptism.
Two of our little residents continuously cried every Sunday to participate in the communion. Due to them not being Baptized, they were not allowed to do so. We organized a baptism specially for them with our Priest. They both got baptized in St Mariam (Astvatsatin) church.
now they both participate in the liturgy ceremony at the alter with Ter Partev and serve our church as real Christians.
In the center of the dinning room a beautiful table with fruits and desserts was waiting for them to celebrate the event!
May the love and grace of God always be with our children.
We express our gratitude to
- Arevatsag” Children Support Center for passing free physiological therapies with our abused children .
- General Doctor Suzan Onanyan, for her continuously volunteering to take care of our elders and our residents and getting donors for the medications we need.
- Our dentist Armine of Lux- Med dental clinic who continues the charity work,by providing a much needed dental care to our residents ,and their children in our shelter.
- The directorate and staff of “Yes Republic”intellectual club for passing a day with our children and playing intellectual and creative games with them.
- Children development center” with the head of Vachagan Tamazyan for
organizing a great puppet show and performance in our center for our children. The little residents enjoyed their time and at the end played a lot of intellectual and creative games with their staff members.
As always, this month as well, we received a lot of letters of requests from individuals who were in dire need of humanitarian assistance. We distributed necessary items to all families in need.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO DO THIS WORK. PLEASE SHARE YOUR BLESSINGS WITH THE UNFORTUNATE….
We are an open Shelter, Please come and visit our facility.
Make your donations to where it counts, and make a difference in the lives of our residents…
ALCF P.O. Box 3595 Seal Beach, California 90740
USA Ph # 562.598.8025
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Monthly Newsletter December 2017
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MYRADOON
The shelter is full of women with their children. Now we have 15 women and 26 children, moreover, there are 5 mothers and 7 children living in the “Post Shelter” units. December is full of birthday parties, events, gifts, joy etc.
As the holidays were closer, we were busy with organizing parties, preparing presents for all the participants of our programs and kindergartens of Ptghunq and Musaler who had a New Year performance and invited us to take part in it. Our shelter little residents surprised us with their great New Year performance. The children were, reciting poems and singing. Our special gratitude goes to Armine, who is coming as a volunteer and plays a piano for our children. |
At the end of December, like every Friday, we started the day with “Bible Study” and then gave our elderly a festive luncheon. A surprise was waiting for them-in our big hall we prepared New Year’s gifts. The festive mood got to its top under festive music, the staff and the elders danced and enjoyed their time.
- Our gratitude goes to Ambassador of Armenia in Sweden Artak Apitonian for presenting ALCF in Stockholm during their Christmas charity lunch.
Please read the articles about Christmas charity lunch:
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https://armenpress.am/arm/
news/916021/stokholmum- kayacel-e-hayastanin-nvirvats- sb-tsnndyan-baregortsakan. html#.WjIx0F9-7Dk.facebook -
http://www.mfa.am/en/press-
releases/item/2017/12/12/ sweden_charity_lunch/ - We thank to Children’s Association of Armenia for donating food to Myradoon residents.
- Karo Obdzanyan from Sherman Oaks Med. Supplies for donating 4 electric wheelchairs to be shipped to Armenia.
- Jerair Artinyan from Top Choice Home Healthcare for donating 4 electric wheelchairs and 4 regular wheelchairs,walkers and crutches.
- Zvartnots Handling” ( Check-in clerks 4th shift) for donating food and sweets forour “Myradoon” residents.
- Jorj Navasardyan from Number 1 supermarket of Ejmiatsin for donating food to our residents.
- “Children development center” for organizing a great Christmas performance for our residents.
- We thank to Children’s Association of Armenia for donating food to Myradoon residents.
- Avetik Isahakyan museum’s director for providing us with free tickets.
Our residents enjoyed being there and listening to the guide who depicted the life of Isahakyan and presented his work’s huge influence on our society and in the poetry in general.
- We thank Natali Pharm for donating organic Hipp baby food for our children enough, and extra to distribute to the needy.
- Pan Armenian Media TV for starting Bari-nor-tari campaign and donating our resident’s handcrafted dogs-the symbol of the new year to all their employees.
- This year our resident’s handcrafted items were presented to Northern Ave boutique, and all the donations were used to help underprivileged people, special thanks to the charity boutique organizers.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO DO THIS WORK. PLEASE SHARE YOUR BLESSINGS WITH THE UNFORTUNATE….
We are an open Shelter, Please come and visit our facility.
Make your donations to where it counts, and make a difference in the lives of our residents…
ALCF P.O. Box 3595 Seal Beach, California 90740
USA Ph # 562.598.8025
www.armenianlighthouse.org E-mail: armenianlighthouse@gmail.com
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Monthly Newsletter November 2017
MYRADOON
As this coming year 2018 is a year of dog, our sewing room works day and night to produce dog shape toys and donate them to Ucom and Panarmenian TV workers. Soon, we will send some samples to Northern Avenue boutique as well. These samples will be sold for charitable causes and help more needy families.
Christmas atmosphere rules in our center, in November staff and residents decorated the whole facility and now we enjoy the decorations of the coming New Year.
We distributed humanitarian aid to 80 underprivileged families, they mostly received warm winter clothing, the villagers were very surprised and delighted that we paid attention to their needs and ditributed them bags of clothing, shoes, toys and other necessary items.We also visited Ashtarak city and gave aid to 100 families.
We give special attention to the Syrian refugees and their problems , we do our best to give a helping hand to all the Syrians.
Please include us in your year end donations
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO DO THIS WORK. PLEASE SHARE YOUR BLESSINGS WITH THE UNFORTUNATE….
We are an open Shelter, Please come and visit our facility.
Make your donations to where it counts, and make a difference in the lives of our residents…
ALCF P.O. Box 3595 Seal Beach, California 90740
USA Ph # 562.598.8025
Armenia ph# 374-93-32-78-34, 374-43-500-503
Address in Armenia: Armavir Marz, Ptghunk Village, Vartanatz 1
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Monthly Newsletter October2017
EVENT & NEWS
In one of the corners, we displayed the residents’ hand-made arts and crafts.
The guests were very touched with the work we do for the underprivileged people and Myradoon residents. They shared their impressions about our center with one another. We had some discussions which was followed by questions & answers. Many of them went out with their eyes full of tears. At the end of the event they enjoyed the desserts prepared for them by our chef.
Here is the reportage about the event in Yerevan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVvgY4jDC4M&feature=youtu.be
We gave warm winter clothing to the participants of ”Feed the Elders” program, on ALCF premises, we put a table full of clothing and shoes and they took whatever they needed.
MYRADOON
Please include us in your year end donations
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO DO THIS WORK. PLEASE SHARE YOUR BLESSINGS WITH THE UNFORTUNATE….
We are an open Shelter, Please come and visit our facility.
Make your donations to where it counts, and make a difference in the lives of our residents…
ALCF P.O. Box 3595 Seal Beach, California 90740
USA Ph # 562.598.8025
Armenia ph# 374-93-32-78-34, 374-43-500-503
Address in Armenia: Armavir Marz, Ptghunk Village, Vartanatz 1
www.armenianlighthouse.org E-mail: armenianlighthouse@gmail.com
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Comedy night at the comedy club
Dear Friends and supporters of ALCF
We thank you for supporting us through the years. Now we need your support again to sell or buy tickets for this event as we are trying to generate funds without too much hard work from board members. Please be our angels and get your social groups together for a night full of laughter at the comedy club. Proceeds will go to ALCF and you can even buy tickets for your employees as Christmas gifts and help the foundation this way.You may do this on line as it says on the flyer and the tickets will be mailed to you ,or we also are selling actual tickets where you can hand deliver them (as soon as this week end) as gifts at your Christmas parties.Please help us do our Godly work and be an angel for ALCF.
Write or call for the actual tickets to be mailed or delivered to you.
Thank you in advance.
office 562-598-8025 or 562-221-7231 cell
Monthly Newsletter September2017
GUESTS & NEWS
This time of the year ALCF is full of guests. People from different corners of the world come to see and tour the facility. They all leave the center very impressed with the lovely atmosphere and the activities that the foundation does.
- Fuller Center visited our facility with 10 of their participants guided by Gohar. They toured and had lots of questions. They were all flabbergasted with our activities and were emotional with shelter residents. We prepared a dessert and fruit table for them.
- Hratch Jaburian, Seta & Varujan Mesropian, Vahag & Seta Mesropian visited us as well. Last time they visited our center years ago. All their emotions and impressions very pleasantly multiplied this year, seeing so many programs added and so many things progressively changed.
Every guest visit energizes us and every donation is very important for our foundation as with your help we are able to support more and more people. - La Can~ada high school students as well as Pasadena students and mothers joined hands, and packed all the merchandise that was donated to ALCF at Alta Dena location. We thank the Chatoians for giving us the space to collect and do the packing at the location.
ALCF in the frame of its “Light of Hope” program continues to visit different villages of Armenia.
This time the turn came for the two villages of Lori province. We drove 2 and half hours to get there.
The villagers of Tsaghkaber and Katnajur were waiting for us. In each village we gave aid to 110 families (together 220 families).
Our shelter residents are very busy not only with their vocational trainings but also some of them are working near the village.
Those who are working now and somehow can live independently but still need our oversight are going to be transferred to Post Shelter units to open space for the new comers.
We continue birthday celebrations.
Before the parties all our little residents have fun painting their faces with the looks of cartoons heroes.
We had a seminar on the topic “Women’s involvement in the local governmental life”.
Arevashat village mayor Susanna Gevorgyan and her staff held the seminar.
Our residents and staff participated in the seminar as well, actively inquiring about the issues that they were mostly interested in. Father Partev did holy liturgy (patarak) in our St Mary’s church on our premises. All our residents, the participants of “Feed the Elders” program and people from neighboring villages were present. The liturgy participants took holy communion.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO DO THIS WORK. PLEASE SHARE YOUR BLESSINGS WITH THE UNFORTUNATE….
We are an open Shelter, Please come and visit our facility.
Make your donations to where it counts, and make a difference in the lives of our residents…
ALCF P.O. Box 3595 Seal Beach, California 90740
USA Ph # 562.598.8025
Armenia ph# 374-93-32-78-34, 374-43-500-503
Address in Armenia: Armavir Marz, Ptghunk Village, Vartanatz 1
www.armenianlighthouse.org E-mail: armenianlighthouse@gmail.com
Monthly Newsletter August 2017
NEWS & EVENTS
At our elders request, we planned a Sevan trip on Friday and Seta Kurdahi sponsored the trip expense and Hrach & Araz Ghazarian sponsored the usual Friday meal. With the head of Mrs.Ghazarian,staff, shelter residents and elders had an amazing trip.
Every time before our staff goes to deliver aid to a community,the warehouse keeper makes all the clothing bags by their names according to the lists sent by municipalities. On the distribution day village mayor sends a van so we put all the bags in it and follow them and organize the distribution process ourselves. More than 400 people receive humanitarian aid on each visit.
Our staff was busy visiting villages of different provinces. In Kotayk province The villagers of Alapars were waiting for us . The distribution was well organized. 90 needy families received humanitarian aid.
After distribution of Alapars village we went to Lusabats camp where all the campers are children from needy families, we donated them T-shirts, lots of Stainless steel kitchenware for the camp kitchen and also tomatoes from our green house.
In our recent newsletters, we had written about Lusine and her daughters: after 8 years we organized their meeting.
As we promised to the village mayor, we went to help all the needy people in his village and once again Lusine had another chance to see her daughters.
We distributed humanitarian aid to 105 needy families in Abovyan village, Ararat region. Villagers were waiting in front of Mayor’s house. We provided them with clothing, shoes, bags, toys and other necessary items.
After distribution Lusine gave presents to her daughters supplied by ALCF and also money which she earned by working in the green house and kept it for that special occasion.
Both Lusine and the girls were very happy and we hope that this will be the beginning of their relationship and from now on they’ll meet more often and without our intervention.
This month we were busy with celebrating parties and events .As the number of our residents increased ,so did the number of birthdays. We had 4 birthday parties and 2 (adamhadig) tooth parties this month. The lovely atmosphere that governs our Myradoon, and all these events have a good influence on their psychosocial state.
Monthly Newsletter July 2017
GUESTS & EVENTS
Our guests have a very positive effect on our residents.
- Fuller Center visited our facilities with 15 of their participants headed by Leo Manuelian of NJ. They toured and had lots of questions. They were all flabbergasted with our activities and were emotional with shelter residents.
We prepared a dessert and fruit table for them. - AYF Youth Corp of CA visited our facility. 25 young adults enjoyed a delicious meal toured the facilities, played with the children and left with heavy hearts and contentment.
They promised to help our foundation in packing and shipping from CA. They played the piano and sang Armenian national songs.
It has been 2 years since Hratch and Araz Ghazarian started sponsoring “Feed the elders” program every Friday. In addition to Tuesdays. This makes our elders feel healthier.
Hratch Ghazarian’s family visited our center during the Friday luncheon. Elders were very happy to meet them. They prayed together, then helped us serve the elders. After lunch they spent their time with our residents and the children.
We had another successful and heart touching story in our shelter. One of our residents who had been living in our shelter almost 2 years now with 2 baby boys, turned out she had a serious psychological trauma 8 years ago that she kept it from us and tried to hide it for all this time. Working with our psychologist we found out she had 2 daughters from a previous marriage that she had been threatened and kept away from seeing them for 8 years now.
Our staff noticed she was getting more and more depressed and having lots of headaches. Her anger was being directed on these two baby boys.We gave her an ultimatum to stop hitting the children or she will be expelled from the program and the children will be taken away from her. She decided to speak.We offered to be an intermediator to arrange for her to meet her daughters after 8 years.
Talking with the mayor of their village, he agreed to help us get the OK from the father and the 2 daughters to see their mom.Now the mother is smiling all the time.
Soon we’ll arrange another meeting as we offered to go to the village and distribute clothing to the needy families of that village.
Our moms and children spent an amazing time on Sunday after church. Our founders Mr. & Mrs. Ghazarian took our residents to Echmiadzin Tashir Pizza. They ate delicious pizza, The children had a lot of fun in the play area.
ALCF continues distributing humanitarian aid to different provinces in Armenia.
Our staff drove 210 km to get to Norakert village in Gegharkunik region and distributed humanitarian aid to 97 needy families․
We provided them with clothing, shoes, bags, toys and other necessary items.
The village was in extreme bad condition. The villagers were surprised to see an organizations that travels the distance to give them humanitarian aid .
The village did not have a Mayor’s office. We gave the aid outside in an open area. Their gratefulness and satisfied faces made us feel our job well done.
We went to Haghartsin village in Tavush region and distributed humanitarian aid to 112 needy families. GoharZaher and our executive director/founder Mrs. Seta joined in the distribution process as well.
We provided them with clothing, shoes, bags, toys and other necessary items.
We organized another distribution process in Shirak and Hatsik villages in Shirak region and gave aid to 180 needy families.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO DO THIS WORK. PLEASE SHARE YOUR BLESSINGS WITH THE UNFORTUNATE….
We are an open Shelter, Please come and visit our facility.
Make your donations to where it counts, and make a difference in the lives of ourresidents…
ALCF P.O. Box 3595 Seal Beach, California 90740
USA Ph # 562.598.8025
Armenia ph# 374-93-32-78-34, 374-43-500-503
Address in Armenia: Armavir Marz, Ptghunk Village, Vartanatz 1
www.armenianlighthouse.org E-mail: armenianlighthouse@gmail.com
